I tried to replicate this on Windows 10 but I wasn’t able to paste it on AnyType and it even deletes the block (if it is empty). I’ve used the web version of OneNote.
This seems like probably an easy fix that has been waiting for over a year… considering the number of people, including myself, likely wanting to migrate lots of info in from Onenote, it feels significant? It’s certainly making me pause about moving properly over to Anytype
Not sure it’s an easy fix. Content pasted from spreadsheets and word processor tables also pastes as image. If it was an easy fix, I expect it would have been done. The number of users wanting to copy/paste tabular data is probably even greater than the number coming over from OneNote
Hmm, maybe. I don’t claim any great expertise. My assumption is that the Windows clipboard offers its contents in different forms (see Paste Special in Microsoft applications), and we’re currently getting the wrong one.
For tabular data it’s a more difficult problem, I suspect, because formatting it nicely in Markdown may be non-trivial, but for text…
You might be right. However, I see many different kinds of issue with paste into AT: HTML and rich text go in as text, but in weird, often tabular, formats that need a lot of manual fixing-up. Not quite as bad as pasting images, but …
I think a lot of this has to do with how Office applications treat anything copied to the clipboard. I have issues with copying text from OneNote and pasting as an image with many programs. I’m on a Mac as well.
OS version: darwin arm64 13.4.1
App version: 0.33.3
Build number: build on 2023-07-18 21:58:21 0000 UTC from at #087b1bff0634dc85980f1fb0cd8fcff4512e960c(v0.27.15)
Library version: v0.27.15
when I copy and paste text from Word in Anytype it pastes an image. I’ve tested it on pages and notes. When I copy-paste the same text from TextEdit it behaves as expected (it pastes texts)
HOW TO REPRODUCE IT
Go to a document in Word
Select and copy some text.
paste the copied text into a page in Anytype
you’ll see it’s pasted as an image
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THE EXPECTED BEHAVIOR
The text being pasted as text (with the option to keep the format as the original document)
SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS: macOS 12.2.1
Device: Macbook Air M1
Anytype Version: 0.29.1
ADDITIONAL CONTEXT
People have mentioned similar issue with Onenote
I followed the same workaround: to copy-paste from Word to a text editor and then from there to Anytype which is a hassle.
thank you
I’ve tried using Cmd + Shift + V to paste some text from a Word Document and was unsuccessful. Is there another way to paste from Word with the text only?
Very frustrating. Would really like to know if there’s a solution coming?
As with others - the text did paste if I copied from MS Word to TextEdit and then pasted into AT - but of course that removes all formatting and all images - which is not very helpful.
